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Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 101-200)BETA
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This list shows the highest grossing Directors based on the worldwide box office of the movies they worked on.
Since we are still actively researching technical roles, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. The table includes data for movies in The Numbers database. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Rank | Name | Worldwide Box Office |
Movies | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Greta Gerwig | $1,743,216,291 | 4 | $435,804,073 |
| 102 | Joe Johnston | $1,734,395,893 | 11 | $157,672,354 |
| 103 | Marc Forster | $1,733,415,849 | 13 | $133,339,681 |
| 104 | Kelsey Mann | $1,698,831,782 | 1 | $1,698,831,782 |
| 105 | Ang Lee | $1,694,435,999 | 14 | $121,031,143 |
| 106 | Joel Schumacher | $1,667,477,130 | 23 | $72,499,006 |
| 107 | Rob Letterman | $1,666,324,849 | 7 | $238,046,407 |
| 108 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $1,662,740,347 | 14 | $118,767,168 |
| 109 | Alfonso Cuarón | $1,644,938,325 | 9 | $182,770,925 |
| 110 | Ruben Fleischer | $1,635,919,763 | 8 | $204,489,970 |
| 111 | Matthew Vaughn | $1,632,424,563 | 8 | $204,053,070 |
| 112 | Juan Antonio Bayona | $1,603,579,912 | 5 | $320,715,982 |
| 113 | Robert Rodriguez | $1,596,273,460 | 25 | $63,850,938 |
| 114 | Andy Muschietti | $1,588,137,405 | 6 | $264,689,568 |
| 115 | Paul Greengrass | $1,580,532,627 | 12 | $131,711,052 |
| 116 | Peter Berg | $1,579,662,943 | 13 | $121,512,534 |
| 117 | Tom Shadyac | $1,579,209,212 | 8 | $197,401,152 |
| 118 | Antoine Fuqua | $1,566,747,384 | 23 | $68,119,451 |
| 119 | Stephen Sommers | $1,550,334,056 | 8 | $193,791,757 |
| 120 | Hayao Miyazaki | $1,539,697,094 | 12 | $128,308,091 |
| 121 | Peter Farrelly | $1,526,128,386 | 18 | $84,784,910 |
| 122 | Chris Weitz | $1,521,154,314 | 9 | $169,017,146 |
| 123 | Doug Liman | $1,514,440,917 | 16 | $94,652,557 |
| 124 | Fan Guo (郭帆) | $1,514,013,924 | 5 | $302,802,785 |
| 125 | Lana Wachowski | $1,469,206,771 | 7 | $209,886,682 |
| 126 | Kelly Asbury | $1,464,311,084 | 5 | $292,862,217 |
| 127 | Shane Black | $1,450,544,730 | 6 | $241,757,455 |
| 128 | Jaume Collet-Serra | $1,443,639,792 | 13 | $111,049,215 |
| 129 | Sylvester Stallone | $1,442,338,864 | 8 | $180,292,358 |
| 130 | Bobby Farrelly | $1,440,575,500 | 16 | $90,035,969 |
| 131 | Tim Story | $1,429,801,393 | 20 | $71,490,070 |
| 132 | Steve Martino | $1,429,334,633 | 4 | $357,333,658 |
| 133 | Rob Cohen | $1,412,572,748 | 15 | $94,171,517 |
| 134 | Aaron Horvath | $1,410,767,221 | 2 | $705,383,611 |
| 135 | Scott Derrickson | $1,395,368,941 | 12 | $116,280,745 |
| 136 | Edward Zwick | $1,392,979,729 | 14 | $99,498,552 |
| 137 | Genndy Tartakovsky | $1,380,218,122 | 5 | $276,043,624 |
| 138 | Barry Levinson | $1,373,207,472 | 28 | $49,043,124 |
| 139 | George Miller | $1,364,763,221 | 14 | $97,483,087 |
| 140 | Chris Miller | $1,362,318,413 | 4 | $340,579,603 |
| 141 | Michael Jelenic | $1,359,146,628 | 1 | $1,359,146,628 |
| 142 | David Ayer | $1,355,342,634 | 13 | $104,257,126 |
| 143 | Nancy Meyers | $1,351,418,684 | 6 | $225,236,447 |
| 144 | Kirk Wise | $1,346,007,933 | 5 | $269,201,587 |
| 145 | Brad Peyton | $1,343,081,630 | 9 | $149,231,292 |
| 146 | John Woo | $1,338,631,542 | 18 | $74,368,419 |
| 147 | Woody Allen | $1,325,810,769 | 50 | $26,516,215 |
| 148 | Luc Besson | $1,324,674,386 | 21 | $63,079,733 |
| 149 | Wes Ball | $1,322,134,528 | 6 | $220,355,755 |
| 150 | Hao Ning | $1,313,023,808 | 8 | $164,127,976 |
| 151 | Oliver Stone | $1,309,413,372 | 22 | $59,518,790 |
| 152 | Joachim Ronnin | $1,284,043,151 | 2 | $642,021,576 |
| 153 | Sydney Pollack | $1,272,536,887 | 18 | $70,696,494 |
| 154 | Jan De Bont | $1,270,180,645 | 6 | $211,696,774 |
| 155 | Jia Ling | $1,268,947,235 | 2 | $634,473,618 |
| 156 | Hu Guan | $1,257,649,381 | 8 | $157,206,173 |
| 157 | Renny Harlin | $1,252,318,378 | 29 | $43,183,392 |
| 158 | Guillermo del Toro | $1,247,896,045 | 15 | $83,193,070 |
| 159 | John McTiernan | $1,247,500,036 | 11 | $113,409,094 |
| 160 | Phil Lord | $1,239,129,823 | 6 | $206,521,637 |
| 161 | Christopher Miller | $1,239,129,823 | 5 | $247,825,965 |
| 162 | Phillip Noyce | $1,238,931,345 | 17 | $72,878,314 |
| 163 | Paul Feig | $1,225,525,492 | 13 | $94,271,192 |
| 164 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson | $1,223,388,200 | 3 | $407,796,067 |
| 165 | Peter Segal | $1,222,614,091 | 12 | $101,884,508 |
| 166 | Josh Cooley | $1,199,494,881 | 2 | $599,747,441 |
| 167 | Gary Ross | $1,197,400,146 | 6 | $199,566,691 |
| 168 | Baz Luhrmann | $1,196,005,004 | 6 | $199,334,167 |
| 169 | Jeff Fowler | $1,195,937,162 | 3 | $398,645,721 |
| 170 | Mel Gibson | $1,194,277,912 | 9 | $132,697,546 |
| 171 | Adam Shankman | $1,193,722,633 | 11 | $108,520,239 |
| 172 | Roger Allers | $1,181,402,246 | 3 | $393,800,749 |
| 173 | Michael Apted | $1,169,928,284 | 25 | $46,797,131 |
| 174 | Joel Coen | $1,163,069,911 | 19 | $61,214,206 |
| 175 | Xu Zheng | $1,154,650,680 | 8 | $144,331,335 |
| 176 | Simon West | $1,150,323,477 | 14 | $82,165,963 |
| 177 | Ryan Fleck | $1,142,716,089 | 6 | $190,452,682 |
| 178 | Garth Jennings | $1,138,344,984 | 3 | $379,448,328 |
| 179 | Anna Boden | $1,137,804,364 | 5 | $227,560,873 |
| 180 | Paul King | $1,129,630,202 | 5 | $225,926,040 |
| 181 | Jared Hess | $1,126,801,108 | 8 | $140,850,139 |
| 182 | Will Gluck | $1,115,472,879 | 9 | $123,941,431 |
| 183 | Adam Wingard | $1,112,383,535 | 12 | $92,698,628 |
| 184 | Muye Wen | $1,109,588,372 | 4 | $277,397,093 |
| 185 | Brian De Palma | $1,105,774,975 | 24 | $46,073,957 |
| 186 | David Silverman | $1,100,379,362 | 3 | $366,793,121 |
| 187 | Robert Schwentke | $1,094,443,111 | 10 | $109,444,311 |
| 188 | Joseph McGinty Nichol | $1,091,870,976 | 13 | $83,990,075 |
| 189 | Alan Taylor | $1,090,480,224 | 4 | $272,620,056 |
| 190 | Danny Boyle | $1,084,247,371 | 16 | $67,765,461 |
| 191 | Michael Mann | $1,082,934,271 | 14 | $77,352,448 |
| 192 | Paul Verhoeven | $1,066,161,454 | 13 | $82,012,420 |
| 193 | Dave Derrick Jr. | $1,059,161,122 | 1 | $1,059,161,122 |
| 194 | Dana Ledoux Miller | $1,059,161,122 | 1 | $1,059,161,122 |
| 195 | Jason Hand | $1,059,161,122 | 1 | $1,059,161,122 |
| 196 | Jonathan Liebesman | $1,054,256,576 | 4 | $263,564,144 |
| 197 | Patty Jenkins | $1,051,493,123 | 4 | $262,873,281 |
| 198 | Lasse Hallström | $1,051,382,766 | 20 | $52,569,138 |
| 199 | Tim Miller | $1,032,315,357 | 2 | $516,157,679 |
| 200 | Chad Stahelski | $1,031,652,346 | 9 | $114,628,038 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.